in reply to Are there argc and argv type functions in perl
No such thing as $ARGC, as far as I know.
But yes, you can use @ARGV to get the command line args. Something to be aware of is that
is not the command name; it's the first argument.$ARGV[0]
Also, check out the Getopt family of modules for automatically parsing your command line args:
and more.perldoc Getopt::Std perldoc Getopt::Long
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